Barnes Wallis

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Name:	Barnes Wallis
Birth Date:	1887
Death Date:	1979
Nationality:	English
Gender:	Male
Occupations:	engineer

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Biography of Barnes Wallis
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Wallis was born in Derbyshire, England, and educated at Christ's Hospital school. He began his career building ships, but soon left to join the Vickers Company, which designed many British airplanes during the First World War. At Vickers Wallis first...

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Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, Kt, CBE, FRS, RDI, FRAeS (September 26, 1887 – October 30, 1979), commonly known as Barnes Wallis, was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in...

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The Daily Mail (London, England)

SCHOOLGIRL AND the dambuster; She was a teenage innocent. But as a new book reveals, when Barnes Wallis - inventor of the bouncing bomb -set eyes on her, they began an intense, secret and deeply-moving love affair.
02/01/2005: 2,466 words, approx. 8 pages

Byline: CHRISTOPHER HUDSON WHEN Barnes Wallis met Molly Bloxam, he was a jobless engineer down on his luck. His great achievements lay ahead of him. He would invent the 'bouncing bombs' which led to the famous Dambusters Raid in May 1943, when...

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5/29/2007: 469 words, approx. 2 pages

The difference between cutting-edge firms and plodding also-rans is simple: Breakthrough businesses hire innovators who look forward. Comatose rivals hire workers based on past experience. Experience is important -- but it's yesterday's map to the present, John Adair says in "Leadership for Innovation."What shapes the...

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